How to Use poetic in a Sentence

poetic

adjective
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  • My mom still waxes poetic about the smell of tomatoes and the spring air in Iran.
    — Sara Li, ELLE, 2 Feb. 2023
  • To be sure, there’s not much going on to rouse that kind of poetic passion.
    — Marilyn Stasio, Variety, 10 Feb. 2023
  • In the poetic ending to this, Snyder comes back to return the favor.
    — Mike Finger, San Antonio Express-News, 28 Feb. 2023
  • A lot of people have a rare and poetic transformation in the woods.
    — Emily Pennington, Outside Online, 1 Feb. 2023
  • Here, Hannah Howard waxes poetic on the cheese that’s been with her in every ebb and flow of life.
    — Hannah Howard, Bon Appétit, 2 Mar. 2023
  • My lovely in-laws also do this and wax poetic about it!
    — Carolyn Hax, Washington Post, 4 Nov. 2023
  • Just the facts, though rendered in minute, poetic detail.
    — Chris Vognar, Los Angeles Times, 13 July 2023
  • Which is probably the most poetic way to say: This is your vegetable knife!
    — Lauren Joseph, Bon Appétit, 17 July 2023
  • Her poetic baroque pearl and white topaz raincloud earrings went cult, and these Dali-esque lips could be set to do the same.
    — Kate Matthams, Forbes, 27 Feb. 2024
  • The entire film is in Pidgin English, which brings a touch of melody to an already poetic piece.
    — Lovia Gyarkye, The Hollywood Reporter, 31 Jan. 2023
  • To label it the club’s heart and soul is more poetic, but less exact, less meaningful.
    — Rory Smith, New York Times, 29 Sep. 2023
  • Filled with poetic flights and freewheeling prose, the tale packs in thwarted love, the tug of family, the waste of war, and the satisfactions of art.
    — Staff, The Christian Science Monitor, 21 Nov. 2023
  • Nail artists wax poetic about how a protective top coat is the key to a long-lasting manicure, and who doesn’t want that?
    — Izzi Friedman, Harper's BAZAAR, 28 Aug. 2023
  • The steel-cutting provided a rather poetic sentiment to the day.
    — Stefanie Waldek, Travel + Leisure, 8 Nov. 2023
  • That poetic phrase is what astronomers call the time just a few hundred million years after the big bang when the very first stars switched on, flooding the cosmos with light.
    — Phil Plait, Scientific American, 3 Nov. 2023
  • It’s the Pisces romantic and poetic charm that gets the tender, loving heart of a Cancer to fully unfold.
    — Meghan Rose, Glamour, 29 Dec. 2022
  • Resist the urge to list your dealbreakers or wax poetic about Dating These Days.
    — Tatum Hunter, Washington Post, 27 Nov. 2023
  • Asked last week about the impact Smith has had, head coach Kevin O’Connell waxed poetic with a 330-word answer that touched on a little bit of everything.
    — Dane Mizutani, Twin Cities, 9 Jan. 2024
  • Their music first struck a chord in the 1960s, cutting through the chaos with poetic and penetrating commentaries on the times.
    — Mike Klingaman, Baltimore Sun, 25 Oct. 2022
  • The Memphis rapper waxed poetic about life’s highs and lows with the urgency of a 25-year-old caught in transition: not young enough to claim naivety, not old enough to know it all.
    — Althea Legaspi, Rolling Stone, 4 Aug. 2023
  • Famed for its lengthy guitar solo and puzzlingly poetic lyrics, the song still gets streamed hundreds of millions of times a year.
    — CBS News, 27 Feb. 2024
  • The slow motion takeover is purely poetic right down to the drumbeat break that catapults actor Joel Fry head over heels.
    — Todd Gilchrist, Variety, 21 Dec. 2022
  • To wax poetic about boots is to know the true value (and versatility!) of this iconic footwear staple.
    — Nicole Kliest, Vogue, 3 Dec. 2023
  • The fact that his Saturday concert at the all-ages Dizzy’s will feature the music of Monk being saluted and re-imagined in bold new ways seems poetic for the Monk award-winner.
    — George Varga, San Diego Union-Tribune, 21 Oct. 2022
  • No matter how many celebrities publicly wax poetic about their D&D campaigns with famous friends, many still associate it with freaks, geeks, and the cast of Stranger Things.
    — David Fear, Rolling Stone, 11 Mar. 2023
  • At its core is Webster’s poetic account of her inner struggles, her confusions and doubts, captured in words at once spare and vivid.
    — Steve Hochman, SPIN, 1 Mar. 2024
  • Peck similarly described his étude, the Sixth, in poetic rather than structural terms.
    — Joshua Barone, New York Times, 16 Nov. 2023
  • Lambert and Morris are two modern-Nashville pillars who continue to take risks, though, and the urge to reward Willie on the eve of his 90th birthday might be too poetic to miss.
    — Leah Greenblatt, EW.com, 2 Feb. 2023
  • While the sound may be different, the track is a quintessential Torres song, with mature and poetic lyrics that narrate a love story.
    — Billboard Staff, Billboard, 2 Dec. 2022
  • But will Jacquet agree to alter what feels like a feature-length selfie, in which the director plonks himself in frame for a great many of the shots and then waxes poetic over the remaining images?
    — Peter Debruge, Variety, 8 Aug. 2023

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